A.K. Burns
Biography
Born in 1975 in Capitola (USA). Lives and works in Brooklyn (USA).
A.K. Burns' interdisciplinary practice explores the body as a contentious domain where social, political, and material forces collide. Engaging deeply with questions of materiality and (re)production, Burns examines how the «deployment of power» is connected to the body, its functions, physiological processes, sensations, and pleasures.
For Burns, the body is not an object with inherent boundaries and properties but multifaceted and porous, permeating and penetrated by its surroundings. These inquiries take shape as visually seductive and socially critical videos, sculptures, writing, sound, drawings, and collages.
A.K. Burns' work has been exhibited at Palais de Tokyo (Paris) ; Julia Stoschek Collection (Düsseldorf/Berlin) ; New Museum (New York) ; Tate Modern (London) ; MOMA - Museum of Modern Art (New York) ; Sculpture Center (New York) ; The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) ; MET - The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) ; MMK - Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main) ; SOMArts (San Francisco) ; ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia) ; Leslie-Lhman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (New York) ; KADIST (San Francisco) ; Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge) ; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art ; Human Resources (Los Angeles) ; The LGBT Community Center (New York).
Burns received in 2021 the Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts and Art Awards Purchase Program from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in 2018 the New York Foundation for the Arts - NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, in 2016-17 the Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University and a recipient of a 2015 Creative Capital Foundation Visual Arts Award.
Her work is part of prestigious collections as Guggenheim Museum (New York) ; American Academy of Arts and Letters (New York) ; Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) ; LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Kadist Foundation (San Francisco) ; MoMA (New York) ; FRAC - Pays De La Loire (Carquefou), Frac Île-de-France, Le Plateau (Paris).
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Gallery exhibitions
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Videos
CONVERSATION
Conversation with artist A.K. Burns and Elisabeth Lebovici, Michel Rein, Paris, 2023
TALK
"Negative Space" a presentation by A.K Burns at Radcliff Institute, Harvard
CONVERSATION
Conversation between Kevin Moore, artist A.K. Burns and Musician Ankit Shrestha
Press

TeebTix
What Is ‘What is Perverse Is Liquid': The Different Installations of A.K. Burns
2024

E-flux
Fall/Winter exhibitions
2024

MoMA
Exploring Community Action Center
2024

Artdaily.com
The Henry Art Gallery announces an exhibition of work by interdisciplinary artist A.K. Burns
2024

Art Critique
Le Musée Transitoire réapparaît à Paris
2024

EverOut
A.K.Burns
2023

crash
A.K. Burns : Sunset at Scum Pond
2023

The Art Newspaper
A.K. Burns : Sunset at Scum Pond
2023
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Publications

Ridykeulous presents : Ridykes Cavern of Fine Inverted Wines and Deciant Videos
Publisher: Nicole Yip, Nottingham Contemporary
2023

Negative Space
Publisher: Karen Kelly and Barbara Schroeder
2023

Zero - A.K. Burns on Nancy Holt
Publisher: Callicoon Fine Arts, New York
2019